Council Bills and Resolutions Text

RECOGNIZING THE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AS THE
HERITAGE AND FREEDOM FLAG OF THE VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU.

WHEREAS, the City and
County of Honolulu is the residence of many ethnic cultures from around
the world, making it a “melting pot” of such cultures; and

WHEREAS, many ethnic
Vietnamese who came to this city from Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s are
now naturalized American citizens; and

WHEREAS, although they are citizens, the
Vietnamese in this city still wish to preserve their own culture and
heritage; and

WHEREAS, the Vietnamese in Honolulu have for
generations contributed and will continue to contribute to the City’s
economic welfare and diverse cultural heritage; and

WHEREAS, the flag of
the former Republic of Vietnam, which consists of three horizontal stripes
of gules, a red color, on a field of gold, symbolizes for the Vietnamese
their ethnic culture and heritage and their economic contribution to this
city, and is the preferred symbol of the city’s Vietnamese-American
community; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the
Council of the City and County of Honolulu that it recognize the flag of
the former Republic of Vietnam, to be known as the Vietnamese Heritage and
Freedom Flag, as the symbol of the Vietnamese-American community and its
cultural and economic contributions to the City and County of Honolulu;
and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED
that copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor and the
American-Vietnamese Coalition of Hawaii.